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« on: November 25, 2016, 06:20:13 PM » |
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Wisconsin will undertake a recount of its presidential election votes after two requests from third-party candidates.
Green Party nominee Jill Stein filed her request just before the deadline Friday afternoon, the Wisconsin Elections Commission announced. Reform Party candidate Rocky De La Fuente also filed for a recount.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission said it is working under a Dec. 13 deadline to finish the recount.
"We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount, we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice,” Michael Haas, the commission's administrator, said in a statement.
“Wisconsin has the most decentralized election system in the United States,” he said. “The system has strong local control coupled with state oversight, resting on the partnership between the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the 72 county clerks, and the 1,854 municipal clerks.
"State law clearly gives each county’s Board of Canvassers the primary authority to conduct the recount, and to decide which ballots should and should not be counted," he added. "Recounting votes is an open, transparent process in which each of the candidates may have representatives present to raise objections, and where the public may be present to observe.”
thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307535-green-partys-jill-stein-files-for-recount-in-wisconsin
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